Bicycle-support



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BICYCLE SUPPORT.

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N. A. EDDY. BICYCLE SUPPGETL No.- 557,557. PatentedApr. 7, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWELL A. EDDY, OF BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

BICYCLE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,567, dated April 7, 1896.

A li ati fil d December 19, 1895. Serial No. 572,638. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knovm that I, NEWELL A. EDDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bay City, in the county of Bay and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvementsin bicycle-supports; and it consists in the combination, arrangement, and construction of the parts with the object of producing a device for supporting bicycles, which can be attached to the ceiling of a building or supported by brackets provided with adjustable slides and secured to the wall of a building, either of which a person may desire, so arranged that the supporting limbs may be drawn up and out of the way when they are not in use.

Another object of the invention is to construct a bicycle-support so arranged that all of the Working parts of the bicycle will be free to rotate, and that a person will have better access and a more convenient means for cleaning, oiling, adjusting, or repairing the Working parts without being obliged to stoop down or the inconvenience of propping the parts up or holding them upby a persons hands, as is the case when using boxes, racks, rails, and such other contrivances that are fixed to the floor of a building.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bicycle supported and shown expressly for the purpose of illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective side elevation showing a support as attached to the ceiling of a building, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the same. Fig. 4 is a central vertical section of Fig. 2, showing the mechanism of the supporting devices. Fig. 5 represents a device when out of use and drawn up and out of the way. Fig. 6

represents a diagonal view of the device when supported by brackets provided with adjustable slides when it is secured to the wall of a Fig. 7 represents a diagonal top building.

View of the plate that supports the limbs. Fig. Sis one of the supporting-limbs, and Fig. 9 is a pintle that supports the same. Fig. 10 is an end view of one of the brackets, and Fig. 11 is the adjustable slide of the same.

A A are the supporting-limbs of the bicyclesupport, which are made of any suitable tubing, and B B are their openings within.

C represents the twin hooks that support the front end of the bicycle, and D is the hook that supports the rear end of the same, which is provided with a curve at Y for the purpose of providing clearance for the bicycle-seat, as shown at C, Fig. 1.

E is the supporting-plate, which is provided with screw-holes, as represented at F F, and countersunk cavities G G.

H H are pintles which are provided with perforated ears X X on their lower side. The cavities G G of the plate E are countersunk from its upper surface sufficiently deep to admit the pintles H. H to drop below the said upper surface. The bottoms of these cavities G G are provided with openings sufficiently wide and long to admit the perforated ears X X to project through the lower side of the said plate E, and to permit the pintles H H to rotate in the said cavities G G. The supporting-limbs A A are provided with slots in their upper ends, as represented at I, Fig. 5, which are journaled to the perforated ears X X by means of pins J J.

The supporting-hooks O and D are provided with extending vertical arms or rods K K, which extend upward into the openings B B of the supporting-limbs A A and are held in position by means of threaded thumb-screws, as shown at L L, for the purpose of providing means for adjusting the hooks C and D to the desired height.

M represents a jack-chain, which connects the supporting-limbs A A together by means of the collars N N, and O is the cord which has one end secured to one of the collars N.

P is a pulley or sheave, and Q represents the ceiling. This pulley or sheave P is secured to the ceiling Q by means of screws or any other suitable means. The cord 0 is placed around the pulley or sheave P with its loose end projecting downward, whereby by pulling the loose end of the cord 0 downward and securing it by any suitable means sired position and screws inserted through 1 the holes T T and screwed thereto. The sliding bars S S are then slid into the grooves U U the desired place or distance and held in position by means of the thumlrscrews V V. The supporting-plate E is secured to the outer end of the sliding bars S S by means of bolts WV WV, whereby means are provided for securing the supports to the wall, and at the same time means areprovided for placing the bicycle the required distance from the wall for cleaning, adjusting, or oiling by simply loosening the thumb-screws V V and sliding the sliding bars S S outward, and then by tightening the thumb-screwsV V the sliding bars SS. are held firm in position. \Vhen work is not required to be performed upon the bicycle, the sliding bars S S may be slid inward to their full extent, whereby the bicycle-support will be but a short distance from the wall, and but little room is utilized when the supports are in use.

In placing the bicycle upon the supports it is only necessary tohan-g the handle-bar of the bicycle, as shown at Z, upon the twin hooks C, with the hooks astride of the handle-bar post, as shown at A, and by hanging the rear end of the bicycles upper reach B upon the hook D- the bicycle is securely supported, and at the same time produces a device that when the bicycle requires tobe adjusted, repaired, oiled, or cleaned a person can freely rotate the working parts, whereby the required work may be more easily and effrciently performed, as well as producing a device that can be adjusted to the desired height, so that a person can stand erect when performing the above-stated work. When oiling the working parts, the bicycle may be swung sidewise pro and con by means of rotating the pintles H H in the cavities G G of the supporting-plate E, which places the journals on an incline plane, whereas when the oil is put into the oil-holes it may be distributed the entire length of the journals, whereby the working parts of the bicycle is more efficiently oiled.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In bicycle-supports, the combination of the limbs A, A, provided with openings B, B, the hook I), and its curve Y, and the twin hooks C, with their rods or arms K, K, inserted into the openings B, B, of the limbs A, A, and secured by the thumb-screws L, L, the pintles H, H, provided with perforated ears X, X; the supporting-plate E, provided with screw-holes F, F, and cavities G, G, the said cavities provided with an opening in their bottom, the said pintle journaled in the said cavity and its ears X, X, projecting through the lower side of the said supporting-plate E, and journaled to the limbs A, A, by means of pins J, J; the chain M, and the collars N, N, which connect the limbs A, A; the cord 0, secured to one of the collars N, and the pulley or sheave P, substantially as described.

2. In bicycle-supports, the combination of the adjustable brackets R, R, provided with 5 screw-holesT, T, and grooves U, U, the sliding bars S, S, slid into the grooves U, U, and held in position by the thumb-screws V, V,

combined with the supporting-plate E, and its cavities G, G, provided with openings in the bottom of the said cavities, the said supporting-plate secured to the outer ends of the said sliding bars S, S, by bolts at WV, V; the pintles H, H, journaled in the said cavities G, G, with its perforated ears X, X, projecting through the lower side of the said supporting-plate E; the limbs A, A, provided with the openings B, B, the said lim-bs journaled to the perforated ears X, X, by means of the pins J, J; the twin hooks C, and the hook I), provided with the curve Y, the rods or arms K, K, inserted into the openings B, B, and secured by the thumb-screws L, L; the chain M, and collars N N, that connect the limbs A, A; the cord 0, and pulley or sheave P, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in. presence of twowitnesses.

NEW- ELL A. EDDY. \Vitnesses ADA GREGG, G. R. A. SNELLING. 

